The Big Book of Science Fiction | 
Well, here is where I am at for #Bookspin for July 2022. I am so deeply behind with all the chunksters I'm supposed to have read by now (which I haven't) that I'm going with all short stories for July. I've got three fairly large collections I'm working on so there's more than enough here to spin with!
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My #BookSpin for May was a story from The Big Book of Science Fiction. If the spinning wheel of book fate keeps this up I'll have this 1160-page book finished in no time! ha! This month's story was Mechanopolis from 1913 by Miguel de Unamuno; translated from Spanish. It's a very short story. A man travels to a world where there are no humans, just machines. ⬇
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Author Sandra Boynton would like to remind us all that today is Science Fiction Day.
I think this will require reading the next story in The Big Book of Science Fiction this evening! 😄
pickThe Triumph of Mechanics is a creepy story about mechanical rabbits that take over a town just in sheer numbers. Written by Karl Hans Strobl before he became a Nazi propaganda writer.
This is my #doublespin #bookspin for November!
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Getting ready for my library's adult story time, this month featuring some classic women SF writers.
"The women say that you look very mannish."
"Mannish?" said I. "What do they mean by that?"
"They mean that you are shy and timid like men."
From Bengali writer Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain's excerpt in the Vandermeer's Big Book of SF - a feminist utopian short story called "Sultana's Dream."
Getting ready for a recording session for Black Chick Lit. This is where the magic happens 😋
Ann and Jeff Vandermeer are national treasures. Their editorial work is beyond words.
🎶you get... interested! 🎶
Still makes me laugh 😂😂😂
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When you're only actually on a holiday for three days but can't decide what to leave home because you want to read them all and think you might have more spare time than you actually have... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #bookishlife #booksforlife #campingwithbooks #books #reading #booklover #igbookish #bbosf #bigbookofsciencefiction #thackerytlambshead #vandermeer
So I wanted to read Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang and I could only get it in this giant book of scifi stories. I've been seeing a movie trailer with Amy Adams in it and found out it is based on this story. Movie looks good. Hopefully the story is too.
This arrived in the mail today and it is ENORMOUS. Almost 1200 pages of short stories from all over the world. Amazing.
A post on Tumblr (same name as here) got me thinking - what do you look for in an anthology of more than one author? What turns you away? And what are some of your favorites?
This summer, I only read ridiculously big books
